Picture-hook hanger.



C. W. HOLTZ.

PICTURE HOOK HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25,1908.

907,599, 7 Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

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CHARLES W. HOLTZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE-HOOK HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Application filed May 25, 1908. Serial N 0. 434,808.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W'. HOLTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Picture-Hook Hangers, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

This invention is to provide a simple and improved form of picture hook hanger.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this character with a pocket or recess, which will retain the hook without the aid of any strain upon the wire.

In carrying out the invention I provide a pocket or recess which will su port at least half of the hook in stable equi ibrium, and I provide independent grooves for the wire so positioned that when the hook is to embrace the icture molding and the holder is withdrawn, the wire end of the hook will come in contact with the wire held in the groove, and hold the same suspended during the continued withdrawal of the picture hook hanger.

The scope of my invention will be pointed out in tne claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevatlon of my improved device, showing a hook in position. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device with the hook removed.

Preferably I form the icture hook hanger as a head 1 provided wiiili a socket 2 having resilient means therein which may grasp a stick or end of a broom or other device to make practically a continuation of the same, although it will be obvious that this detachable feature need not be present in my invention.

The head 1 is provided with two outstanding arms or wings 4 and 5, each wing or arm having a groove 6 across its top and parallel with the face of the hanger. In the mid portion of the head and open to the top I form a supporting wall 8 at the back of the same, of at least half the height of the picture hook to be grasped. I prefer to form a short wall 9 in the forward part of the recess 7, but I do not limit myself to any particular height for this front wall. I prefer to form it short so that the hook will have no impediment to withdrawal from the recess when it is desired to do so. The wall 8 is made that height specified so that the hook will be stably supported within the same, its greatest weight resting on the bottom of the recess 7.

In operation a hook 10 is placed, wire end down, within the recess 7 in the position shown in Fig. 2. The wire of the picture, which is attached to the picture at this time is passed across the grooves in the right and left arms of the head 1, bridging the gap above the hook where it crosses the recess 7. The frame, wire and hook hanger are then elevated into position at the end of a pole as before described by preference, and the large end of the picture hook 10 caused to embrace a picture molding. The head 1 is then lowered and as the hook is caught by its upper end on the molding it will be withdrawn from its socket or recess 7, during which withdrawal the wire end of the hook will come into contact with the wire lying across the recess, and in the grooves as aforesaid, engage the same, and revent the withdrawal of the wire upon t e continued with drawal of the head.

It will be obvious that the device described is just as applicable for the taking down of pictures as it is for the hanging of the same.

I claim as my invention:

1. The herein described picture hook hanger comprising a head having a deep recess with a comparatively high wall and a comparatively low wall on the opposite side forming a pocket at the base of the recess adapted to receive the wire end of a picture hook, grooves for the picture wire in the head a substantial distance above said ocket, whereby the wire will be free of the iiook when both are in position.

2. The herein described picture hook hanger comprising a head having right and left arms or wings grooved across their tops parallel with the face of the head for the icture wire, a recess between the right and eft wings or arms, said recess having a comparatively high rear retaining wall, and a comparatively low forward retaining wall Signed at New York city, New York this forrkrliingla pocket betweejn the twdo walls zlstday of May 1908. wit in't 1e recess at a su 'stantia is'tance' below the aforesaid rooves, whereby the CHARLES HOLTZ' 5 wire and the hook will be free of each other Witnesses:

until the ole is withdrawn, and the wire JENNIE A. WEBB, then broug t into contact with the hook. F. WARREN WRIGHT. 

